Legal issues and construction law

Why it鈥檚 important to use everyday language in contract documents

2025-06-06T06:00:00+01:00By Tony Bingham

Tony Bingham on DBS vs TCS and why standard form contract devisers need to get more everyday with their language

Barratt Supreme Court ruling highlights what the government should have done after Grenfell

2025-06-04T06:00:00+01:00By Sheena Sood

The聽URS vs BDW (Barratt) decision highlights the government鈥檚 failure to formulate an effective response to Grenfell. Here鈥檚 what it should have done instead

How landmark Supreme Court ruling clarifies liability and limitation on building safety

2025-05-23T09:26:00+01:00By Theresa Mohammed

Construction professionals must now operate with heightened awareness of their long-term liabilities, in the wake of the pivotal ruling in the Barratt Homes case

Legal abroad: Doing business in Indonesia's fast-growing construction industry

2025-05-23T06:00:00+01:00By Yu-Jin Tay, Charles Tay and Sang Joon Park

With a construction market set to reach US$300bn this year, the new BRICS nation has great potential for UK companies

Adjudication doesn鈥檛 need to be complicated

2025-05-19T06:00:00+01:00By Tony Bingham

Tony Bingham on a failed attempt to overturn an adjudication on the ground that it covered multiple contracts with slightly differing terms

Why the Supreme Court ruling on women-only spaces and services matters for construction employers

2025-05-15T05:00:00+01:00By Monica Kurnatowska and Rebecca Bull

Monica Kurnatowska and Rebecca Bull on the implications of聽For Women Scotland Ltd vs The Scottish Ministers

Construction claims over sinkholes and landslips are on the rise

2025-05-08T06:00:00+01:00By Giles Tagg and Alessandro Morgan-Gianni

As geological risks increase, driven by climate change, claims relating to geotechnical impacts on construction projects may become more common

The Procurement Act is here 鈥� what does it mean for the construction industry?

2025-04-30T06:00:00+01:00By Colin Jones and Stewart Morrison

Colin Jones and Stewart Morrison explain what the new legislation means for the construction industry

Get your clause into it 鈥� contractual responsibility for specific risks

2025-04-24T06:00:00+01:00By Tony Bingham

Tony Bingham on a case concerning contractual responsibility for specific risks, and the attempts to locate that amid amendments

Implementing the 微密圈 Safety Act in Wales

2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00By Helen Johnson and Katie Rider

Helen Johnson and Katie Rider on how the 微密圈 Safety Act applies differently for Welsh buildings

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Simon Tolson to stand down as Fenwick Elliott senior partner

2024-06-13T09:52:00+01:00By Carl Brown

Prominent lawyer steps back after 23 years at the helm

Trio of partners appointed by construction law firm Fenwick Elliott

2023-09-11T10:39:00+01:00

Senior associates promoted in London and Dubai

SNC-Lavalin arm pleads guilty to Libya fraud

2019-12-20T06:00:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

Subsidiary of Canadian firm which owns Atkins fined more than 拢160m

Number of High Court disputes jumps again

2019-12-06T06:00:00+00:00By Tom Lowe

Carillion collapse blamed as annual figure heads towards 400 mark

Camden council makes 拢130m High Court claim against tower block contractors

2019-12-02T06:00:00+00:00By Alice Lorenzato-Lloyd

Legal action centres on Chalcots Estate evacuation in June 2017

Willmott Dixon and Hackney row over defects on resi block

2019-09-04T05:00:00+01:00By Hamish Champ

Contractor鈥檚 housing arm Willmott Partnership Homes disputes 鈥榤any鈥櫬爋f council鈥檚 claims

Second law firm begins action over Lendlease share fall

2019-08-13T05:00:00+01:00By Dave Rogers and Jordan Marshall

Price plunge triggered by woes at engineering business

HS2 faces crunch ruling on Old Oak Common start date

2019-07-18T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Railway will hear in September whether challenge by Bechtel will stop it awarding job to Balfour Beatty team

Heathrow beats challenge against third runway

2019-05-01T11:47:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall

Twenty-one of the 26 claims were deemed to be unarguable

HS2 procurement blunders have cost us 拢100m, Bechtel says

2019-04-25T05:00:00+01:00By Jordan Marshall1 comments

US giant goes to court after 拢1.1bn Old Oak station job awarded to Balfour Beatty team

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The coronavirus crisis: What does it all mean?

2020-03-18T06:00:00+00:00By Dave Rogers, Yolande Barnes and Simon Tolson

The implications of covid-19 for construction, housing and legal

Brexit and construction law: Changing times

2017-06-23T06:00:00+01:00By Al Watson, Jill Carey and Clare Harman-Clark

One year on from the EU referendum, nobody knows how a post-Brexit world will look

Interview: Richard Saxon

2016-08-04T06:00:00+01:00By Francis Ho

Richard Saxon, chair of the Joint Contracts Tribunal, speaks to 微密圈 legal columnist Francis Ho about new kinds of contracts, the competition, and where he thinks the industry is heading

Crossing the line

2015-08-28T07:00:00+01:00By Roxane McMeeken

With the Calais crisis still a hot media topic, the government is on the warpath against construction companies employing illegal workers. But is the sector doing enough to make sure it doesn鈥檛 get caught out?

Procurement on trial

2014-08-22T06:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner1 comments

Construction firms are increasingly emboldened to take the government to court over its procurement decisions, but who鈥檚 to blame?

Museum of Liverpool: Nightmare at the museum

2013-08-08T00:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner

The 拢72m Museum of Liverpool may have opened in 2011, but problems with the design and build mean parts of the iconic building are still inaccessible to the public. Last week鈥檚拢1.13m court judgment highlights the dangers for small consultants on big projects

Insurance special report: BIM

2012-10-26T00:00:00+01:00By Roxane McMeeken

The rise of collaboration software has created a lot of questions for insurers - not least how to divide up and assign blame if anything goes wrong

Costly legal disputes: Everyone's a loser

2012-06-15T00:00:00+01:00By Emily Wright

The amount spent on legal disputes has jumped by a third in the UK over the past year. Why are construction firms still so keen to spend on litigation?

Sparks fly: The row over electricians' wage agreements

2012-01-04T10:30:00+00:00By Iain Withers

The decision of seven major M&E contractors to break away from the 40-year-old JIB wage agreement was prompted by an 鈥榰rgent need to modernise鈥� but has already led to angry clashes between workers and police. 微密圈 reports on a row that threatens to become the sector鈥檚 biggest industrial relations dispute ...

Hackney Empire vs Aviva Insurance: The Empire strikes back

2011-07-15T00:00:00+01:00By Iain Withers

This is the tale of a theatre project, backed by Lord Sugar, that landed its client with a 拢3.2m headache. Now eight years on there鈥檚 a legal battle over a bond between the insurer and the theatre owner

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